Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said public safety planning, not the fact organizers are calling for him and his police superintendent to step down, will determine whether he throws his support behind an anti-violence march slated to close down part of Lake Shore Drive next week and continue to Wrigley Field before a Cubs night game.

If the groups planning the Aug. 2 march through the crowded North Side want his backing, Emanuel said, the Rev. Greg Livingston and other organizers need to talk through their proposal with police, as the Rev. Michael Pfleger did before an anti-violence march that recently closed part of the Dan Ryan Expressway.

“Father Pfleger worked with the Police Department on preparations,” Emanuel said at a news conference after the City Council met Wednesday. “It’s my hope that Mr. Livingston also works with the Police Department so we can ensure that if people want their voices to be heard that it be done in a way that is responsible, that there’s a message of anti-violence.”

And even if those talks take place, the mayor stopped short of promising he would back the plan. “I’m not going to get ahead of the discussions,” he said.

The mayor finds himself dealing with a second group of anti-violence advocates in a month who want to shut down a major thoroughfare. Early this month, Emanuel ended up supporting Pfleger’s march that closed part of the northbound Dan Ryan Expressway on a Saturday morning, after Pfleger refused to budge when police asked him to instead hold it on a surface street.

This time, organizers say they want to “redistribute the pain” to the North Side by snarling traffic in crowded neighborhoods as thousands of fans try to make their way to the ballpark for a game between the Cubs and San Diego Padres.

And unlike Pfleger, Livingston, who was a spokesman for Willie Wilson’s 2015 mayoral campaign against Emanuel, says he’s putting together the upcoming march in part to call for the resignations of Emanuel and police Superintendent Eddie Johnson.

Livingston is joined in the planning by Tio Hardiman, a two-time candidate for governor who’s involved with the group Violence Interrupters.

Emanuel said their message against him won’t play a part in whether he supports the march as he did Pfleger’s.

“If people want to say the superintendent and I should resign, that doesn’t influence my decision, except for one thing: I think Superintendent Johnson does a fabulous job, and I’m proud that I appointed him,” Emanuel said.

Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney, 44th, said he needed to get more specifics from police on the march before deciding whether he supported the plan.

“You have to balance peoples’ right to make their voices heard with the safety of the community,” Tunney said. “It’s a big city. We handle big events all the time.”

The groups said they started to plan next week’s march after Chicago police fatally shot Harith Augustus on July 14 in the South Shore neighborhood.

Livingston this week said holding the march on the North Side is a way to make people in that part of the city deal with their demands, as opposed to Pfleger’s decision to march on a Saturday on the South Side.

“I thought it was strategically not the best thing because the purpose of a demonstration and a march is to redistribute the pain, so to be out on the Dan Ryan on a weekend at 10 o’clock in the morning, in a black neighborhood where all this is going on — I don’t feel like it was anything that was going to redistribute the pain,” Livingston said.